Renaming songs with __

[willtham1]

I love this script 10/10 but real quick. I have songs that I get from soundcloud and when i import them its renaming them with __ in front of there name. What does that typically mean and can i prevent this.
In-addition all those songs from soundcloud have metadata only for title.

directory: ~D:\Music
import:
    move: yes
    copy: no
    write: no

paths:
    default: $albumartist/$album%aunique{}/$title
    singleton: Non-Album/%if{$albumartist,$albumartist,$artist}/$title
    comp: Compilations/$album%aunique{}/$title


## Resources
# https://github.com/beetbox/beets/discussions/5009

Heres an example of one of my song
__Travis Scott - Butterfly Effect (Jamek Ortega Remix)

Thank you in advance!

[DjSlash]

Without knowing your config nor how the songs are called, my best guess would be that the artist/title contains characters that are being replaced.

[willtham1]

beet import --group-albums -A "D:/Music"

[DjSlash]

Okay, please provide the metadata of the file you've given as example. (for example by loading the info plugin and use beet info path/to/file or another tool)

[willtham1]

Ill give you two extra examples with the info plugin

$ beet info "D:\Music\__Drake - Passionfruit (Kawz & Tolex Afro Tribute).wav"
D:\Music\__Drake - Passionfruit (Kawz & Tolex Afro Tribute).wav
             art: False
        bitdepth: 24
         bitrate: 2116800
    bitrate_mode:
             bpm: 122
        channels: 2
    encoder_info:
encoder_settings:
          format: WAVE
           genre: Afro
          genres: Afro
     initial_key: Abm
          length: 346.2295238095238
      samplerate: 44100
           title: Drake - Passionfruit (Kawz & Tolex Afro Tribute)

thamw@FormdT1 MINGW64 ~
$ beet info "D:\Music\__Numo, Akann - Water [Melodic Afro Remake].wav"
D:\Music\__Numo, Akann - Water [Melodic Afro Remake].wav
             art: False
        bitdepth: 24
         bitrate: 2116800
    bitrate_mode:
             bpm: 122
        channels: 2
    encoder_info:
encoder_settings:
          format: WAVE
           genre: Afro
          genres: Afro
     initial_key: Ebm
          length: 403.95621315192744
      samplerate: 44100
           title: Numo, Akann - Water [Melodic Afro Remake]

[DjSlash]

I've been scratching my head, but suddenly it hits. The only metadata available is title. But your paths configuration also wants album and albumartist. Those don't exist. That makes the path evaluate to "D:\Music\\file.ext", which obviously is incorrect, hence those extra slashes being replaced by underscores.

Either change the path to only use the title, or improve the metadata of the files so they contain artist/albumartist/album.

Some considerations:

• try the fromfilename plugin; the files seems to have a usable "artist - title" filename-layout.
• use singleton mode (beet import -s) if the files don't make up for albums (note that this reflect the singleton part in your paths configuration).
• add data from soundcloud to musicbrainz, there's even a userscript for easy importing soundcloud albums into musicbrainz releases.

[willtham1]

This was well put together solution thanks Slash for the speed of help!